Yeah, I think having to play nice with the boosters and the media is going to keep some guys away from there. They'll find someone, though. The program has too many advantages to stay down.
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College Football 2015 Week Seven: Meet Texas, your 2015 National Champions
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Yeah, I think having to play nice with the boosters and the media is going to keep some guys away from there. They'll find someone, though. The program has too many advantages to stay down.
Ninja Scooter
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I like Calhoun. NOt sure if Fitzgerald is a USC type of guy though. He might be too comfortable at NW. One guy I saw mentioned that intrigues me is Justin Fuente from Memphis but I don't know if he's a big enough name to merit serious consideration from Haden and co. (which is a shame)
Justin Fuente.
I feel like USC at this point has to go the UF route and get a guy from the G5 who wins games. Memphis has a legit shot at a NY6 berth, especially if they beat Ole Miss this week.
Beat me to it.
I think even athletes are allowed honest mistakes.
He either didn't know and didn't check his weight gain substance with the staff to see if it was legal, or he knew and didn't check it.
One's dumb, one's dishonest.
I'd love to have him around as the offensive coordinator.
Purple Cheeto
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Maybe USC hires Mike Riley away from his nightmare at Nebraska.
Ninja Scooter
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Or he really didn't think to check with the staff. I just feel like just because you're a collegiate/pro athlete doesn't mean you're no longer capable of an honest mistake. To think that in itself is dumb.
Ninja Scooter
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Steve Spurrier is 70 years old? I have no idea why that surprised me. But it does mean retirement makes a whole lot of sense.
they'd basically have to (functionally) buy out both Riley and Bo Pelini's contracts to even get Nebraska to think about letting that happen
Bo is still on our payroll for a while
http://www.omaha.com/huskers/blogs/...cle_5e4adf56-f8b5-11e4-932a-f3d7b4192de1.html
Fragamemnon
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I wonder if Brent Venables is going to get a chance at the SCAR job or if they are planning to grab a HC from the G5 like UF did.
Purple Cheeto
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Is Spurrier retiring effective immediately?
Could be. Did he fly to the LSU game? Flights are a good way to trigger heath issues in older people.
Dsyndrome
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Holy shit, so much happening today.
bucknuticus
Member
Must be something bad if hes retiring mid season, that or hes going to the real USC....
They did fly to the LSU game, but I think* it's probably just fatigue catching up to him during a difficult season. He's been very exasperated during press conferences lately, and it's a far cry from the amusing sort of exasperation we're used to. I hate to see him end his Gamecock career this way.
* I hope
Grier suspended.
USC without a head coach.
Spurrier retiring.
What a busy day in CFB.
devildog820
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Is this the new moon messing shit up? Spurrier retiring mid season screams health issue. Hope he's alright.
CrocMother
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Best of luck to the old ball coach
Welp, HBC has nothing left to prove but I am surprised he is doing it mid season. I guess no point in doing the SCAR/Duke series he talked about, but there was a good chance he wouldn't be there when it happened anyway. Cutcliffe probably won't be at Duke at that point either, not as head coach anyway.
I'd still love to see that series, and not just because I'm in Durham. (Well, okay, a little bit because I'm in Durham.)
FloydtheFathead
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Then Haden needs to keep them happy and shut them up without completely kowtowing to them. Christ, keep the hands out of the kitchen. Winning solves everything and if Ed could have done that then he should have picked that battle to fight.
I am shocked. I mean he is 70, but that program wouldn't have been where it was without him. I mean that program might be in disarray. It didn't even look like there was a succession plan put into place or something to ease the transition.
What a fuckin day.
If you guys want one more crazy story, a former A&M player and UT commit, was just arrested for stabbing somebody to death in Dallas. You might remember Thomas Johnson as that one A&M player who went missing for a few days and then quit the team after that.
http://espn.go.com/college-football...homas-johnson-suspected-dallas-jogger-killing
http://espn.go.com/college-football...homas-johnson-suspected-dallas-jogger-killing
Dsyndrome
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bucknuticus
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RIP
It still might, I think Cutcliffe said he thought it would be a great game when asked about it. At some point, we're going to have to play some SEC teams soon, and it can be a long ass time before we play a team like Alabama again.......
although, if we did, we're not losing 63-13 like last time.
But his sorry ass team still beat UNC....Next to Tennessee, I don't know any team Spurrier trolled better than UNC.
FloydtheFathead
Member
RIP
I wish he could finish the season just because and he gets to win in a bowl game. He deserves to go out on top.
At least it wasn't as bad as what happened to Lou in his last game at SC
perfectchaos007
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I have a /csb to add.
I was working my company's booth at a county trade show today and next to me was a lady selling fudge. We talked for a bit because foot traffic was slow and I even bought some fudge from her. I told her it was amazing then I asked her why she didn't have a storefront, and she said that's something they would look into when her son goes off to college next year. I asked where he was going and she said he was recruited to play for Florida. Wait, what? Long story short, her son is 2016 Florida Gata QB commit Kyle Trask. So naturally I asked her if she had heard the news today about Grier getting busted with PED's and of course she was and also concerned that since it was an over the counter supplement that her son and other players may accidentally take something banned. And I agreed with her and said "yeah I bet that list of banned substances changes on a weekly basis with all the new stuff over the counter, so you have to be up to date". She mentioned he was trying to finish all his course work to get to Florida in January to enroll early and I said well after this news about Grier, he may be needed sooner than later. Anyways, that was my interesting convo with the fudge lady today. /csb
I was working my company's booth at a county trade show today and next to me was a lady selling fudge. We talked for a bit because foot traffic was slow and I even bought some fudge from her. I told her it was amazing then I asked her why she didn't have a storefront, and she said that's something they would look into when her son goes off to college next year. I asked where he was going and she said he was recruited to play for Florida. Wait, what? Long story short, her son is 2016 Florida Gata QB commit Kyle Trask. So naturally I asked her if she had heard the news today about Grier getting busted with PED's and of course she was and also concerned that since it was an over the counter supplement that her son and other players may accidentally take something banned. And I agreed with her and said "yeah I bet that list of banned substances changes on a weekly basis with all the new stuff over the counter, so you have to be up to date". She mentioned he was trying to finish all his course work to get to Florida in January to enroll early and I said well after this news about Grier, he may be needed sooner than later. Anyways, that was my interesting convo with the fudge lady today. /csb
PlayALLtheGames
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Don't be sorry bruh. We still have our coach, a solid QB who was our winning starter last year, and basically just need to beat a crappy UGA team to win our division!
This is sad but it was pretty clear it was coming. His run at USC was over anyone could see it. Just sucks his last game has come and gone with no celebration just a beat down in a weird situation
GoldenEye 007
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This is all supposed to happen in the offseason! What are we going to talk about then!
Although.... this is already the offseason for me.
Although.... this is already the offseason for me.
ErnieMcCracken
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One of the craziest days in CFB in a while. What the hell is next?!
Azwethinkweiz
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This is the most South Carolina thing that could've happened.